HARARE – Zimbabwe’s leadership has never had an opportunity as the current one to prove to the world that we can shape our own destiny. The constitutional referendum set for next month gives President Robert Mugabe every reason to be believed in his messages for peaceful elections, that is if he stamps his foot on…
HARARE – In Zimbabwe, people know that either elections are in the offing or that a lot is at stake in the marketplace by simply observing the number and quality of alleged surveys being churned out by so-called research or monitoring organisations. The naked aim of many of these unashamedly partisan, so-called surveys is almost…
HARARE – Finance minister Tendai Biti is a man of significant energy, courage and conviction. And his love for his country is unquestionable. Indeed, Biti has demonstrated these laudable qualities time and again over the past decade — particularly as Zanu PF’s lunacy reached diabolic levels leading to the ill-fated 2008 polls where the minister’s…
HARARE – We are so intent on following the political dramas in our unity government. News that the GMB had stopped selling maize to millers in January went almost unnoticed at a time the Grain Millers Association were reported saying the GMB had told them they were “working on some logistics.” Before the issue of…
HARARE – As reported in this paper today, the National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (Nieeb)’s planned investment into the Zimbabwe Allied Banking Group (ZABG) raises a potential stinker in many ways. For the simple reason that its fund was primarily set up to hold cash from the indigenisation drive for reinvestment in infrastructural and…
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe turns 89 this month amid indications that he will run for a new term in the forthcoming elections. The veteran former guerrilla has shown amazing energy to remain in office although no one can discount that his health and advanced age work against him. Yes, his spin doctors have tried…
HARARE – On March 16, 2006, thousands of people from all walks of life across the country converged at the City Sports Centre in Harare for the MDC first post-split Congress. The four-day event would turn out to be a watershed Congress for the MDC as it came when the party had virtually no resources…
HARARE – I note with great sadness that we, in Zimbabwe, have developed a tendency of always turning funerals into platforms to spout our nonsensical political filth. A few days ago, it was amusing to listen to MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti, giving a lecture on contemporary Zimbabwean politics while addressing mourners during a supposed church…
HARARE – The move by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) to introduce the registration of vehicles being imported into the country at border posts is long overdue. It has always been said that the current system, where people who import vehicles have to buy temporary number plates at the border or travel without number plates to…
HARARE – They say experience is the best teacher, experience means the same mistakes will not be repeated. For if the same pitfalls are to befall a nation again then that nation does not want to learn or has no such capacity or at least the willingness. For some of us who remained optimistic that…
